The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery [Paperback]

Earthshaking. A book which I hope will be widely read.  Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic & International StudiesA shining example of heroism that transcends religion, race and time&This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Holocaust.  Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of PolandA real contribution to our understanding of the history of Poland under Nazi occupation.  Antony Polonsky, the Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis UniversityAn Allied hero who deserved to be remembered and celebrated.  Professor Norman Davies, historian and author (Vanished Kingdoms)This remarkable book...may shock but will surely enlighten. Here is a portion of the Auschwitz story that needed to be told.  Gerhard L. Weinberg, the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, internationally recognized authority on Nazi Germany One man volunteered for Auschwitz, and now we have his story. . .Pileckis report on Auschwitz, unpublishable for decades in Communist Poland and now translated into English under the title The Auschwitz Volunteer, is a historical document of the greatest importance. -- Timothy Snyder, Yale Professor, author of Bloodlands, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 24, 2012A historical document of the greatest importance. The New York Times Editors ChoiceExtraordinary. Macleans (Canada)?September 1940. Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki deliberately walked into a Nazi German street round-up in Warsaw and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859. He had volunteered for a secret undercover mission: smuggle out intelligence about the new German concentration camp, and build a resistance organization among prisoners. Pileckis clandestine intelligence, received by the Allies in 1941, was among earliest. He escaped in 1943 after accomplishing his mission. Dramatic eyewitness report, written in 1945 for Pileckis Polish Army superiors, l)